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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-21
Slandering the South.

The Philadelphia Press never fails to inn
prove an opportunity to say unpleasant
things about the South Speaking of the
i'll treatment of the prisoners in the New
Orleans Jail it says: 1.-THE callous indiffer-
ence TO those things in the South is one OF
the strongest and saddest relics of slavery"
1t would be interesting to know how zeal
lous indifference" to human suffering on
the part of the Southern people can be in
ferred from the failure of the criminal
Sheriff of New Orleans to supply the
prisoners in his charge with a sufficient
amount of wholesome food. The Sheriff,
if the charges against him are true has been
starving his prisoners, and putting the
money which ought to purchase food for
them into his own pocket. When the facts
became known there was an investigation,
and a reform was inaugrIrated. In this
matter the people of New Orleans acted just
about as people in any other city would.
Officials who violate their trust are found
in every part of the country. Only few
days ago an superintendent Of the Phila-
delphia almshouse was discharged from the
penitentiary He was convicted and i'm
prisoned for certifying to false bills for
almshouse supplies. Doubtless he starved
the inmates of the almshouse as well as
robbed the county of Philadelphia. But no
Southern journal said that the almshouse
incident showed that the Northern people
were so heartless that the sufferings of their
paupers made no impression upon them.
A couple of weeks ago a bright young
woman of the New York Worlds staff pre-
tended to be insane in order to get chance
to write up the actual condition of affairs
in the Blackwelrs Island Insane Asylum.
Although perfectly sane woman the smart
doctors pronounced her a crazy woman,
and to the asylum she went. She staid
there ten days, and then secured her release
and wrote her story. And what story it
was! No self-respecting journalist, after
reading it, would charge the Southern peo-
pie with Jealous Indifference" to human
suffering, because Sheriff of a Southern
prison denied his prisoners sufficient food.
The poor insane women on Blackwells
Island are not only starved.
but are subjected to cruelties that would
drive a healthy woman crazy
in less than month. The condition of
affairs in that asylum, however, doe, not
prove that the Northern people are indiffer-
emit to human suffering, any more than the
starving of the inmates of the New Orleans
prison proves that the Southern people re-
gard with indifference the wrongs suffered
by those who are not in condition to pro-
tect themselves. The man who would
SANDER a whole people because of the acts of
one man, or one set of men, is a fit associate
for those who starve criminals and paupers
to fill their own purses
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-21
A BARBER'S BLUNDER.
He Thinks His Customer is Timid, But
Finds He is Mistaken.

Finds He is Mistaken.
From the Neic York Euening Sun.
AT 7:57 O'Clock last night a timid man with
stiff, wry beard entered an uptown barber
shop. All the chairs were empty, and seven
artists sat nervously eying the clock. Eight
O'Clock was closing time, and each man was
anxious to leave. The BARRIERS glared at the
new conner, but slowly walked TO their chairs
with an air of resignation. The man hung up
his hat walked toward the nearest seat and
sank into it with q deep drawn sigh;
The barber--a short, dark vlsaged
little man with black moustache
and chin whiskers- uttered an ominous igrunt,
gave tiger-like glare at his victim, punched
towel under his collar and used a lather brush.
Then he grabbed the dullest razor in his colec-
ton. He twisted the mans face TO one side, and
with straight arm movement drew the razor
over his face. With cry of pain the man
squrmed into sitting posture, but the barber
pushed him down and repeated his action. Ii
brought tears to the eyes of his prey. 'Gasplng
for breath the timid man ventured TO mildly
eXpostuate:
I'm in no hurry, he said. 81 don't want to
catch a train
IAN right" blurted the barber with grin as
he proceeded.
In five minutes the torture was over
'Close shave, sir. snarled the artist, who ex-
pected a negative reply.
Yes" replied the timid man, determinedly.
Clean and close too.f
He was bent upon having revenge
The distress over, the tilnid man, with keen
sense of humor demanded a haircut, and the
BARRIERS companions giggled. Fifteen minutes
elapsed before the job was completed, and the
artist was almost foaming at the mouth with
rage. All his mates had gone home thoroughly
enjoying his misery.
rs that ALL sir?' inquired the barber in tones
of whitening irony, clutching the bottle of hair
tonic.
"No-o-o' drawled the timid man, smiling as
he noticed the artists agony Give me sham
poo"
An expression of speeches. rage distigured
the barbers features. He wanted to refuse, but
he didn't dare, for the proprietor was sitting on
the opposite side of the room. So the tiInfd
man was shampooed, but it was in very per
functory way, and his hair was almost removed
from the scalp. He stood it all without grim
ace, paid the charges, slipped a cent into the
BARRIERS hand, and with CHEEKY good night
glided through the door.
The barhAr didn't ref1lV
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-21
The state Fair and the veterans

The indications are that the Southern vet
Grams will appear in force at Macon next
week. It is probable that since the disband-
ing of the armies of Lee and Johnston in
the spring of 1865 no such gathering of Con-
federates has been witnessed as will meet
Mr. Davis at Macon
These Confederates are now largely the
farmers, merchants, mechanics and profess
sional men Of the South, and while they
recognize the fact that the cause for which
they fought was lost, and lost forever,
their hearts thrill with emotion when they
recall the many battlefields on which they
proved their valor, and on which the 'red
cross" waved and beckoned them to vic.
tory. These men are the representative
men of the South, and they speak her SEN
timents wherever she needs an advocate.
1t is true that they are crowded by
another generation, but the places that
belong to them win never be denied to
them; and neither they nor their children
win ever fail to feel the most profound
respect for the leader of the lost cause while
he lives, and for his memory when he shall
have been gathered to his fathers, Thou
sands who will see him at the State Fair at
Macon viii see him for the last time This
fact doubtless will be a strong inducement
to the veterans to make special effort to
meet their chief next week.
Southern veterans have nothing to re-
greet. They did their duty conscientiously.
Mr.. Davis has nothing to regret. Ho fol-
lowed the course which his judgment
marked out, and was faithful to the trust
reposed in him The Chief will meet the
veterans and the veterans will meet their
Chief therefore, with no other feelings than
those of mingled love and respect. For the
brief time they will be together they will
live over again the scenes which are asso-
ciated with so much glory and so much suf-
fering, and then the veterans will go back
to their farms, workshops and offices, and
strive with renewed energy to make this
the greatest country the world has ever
known or man ever dreamed Of The gath
ering at Macon will be a notable one, as it
ought to be.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-21
Quits.


Miss May and myself had been sitting
In the sofa tete-a-tete chair;
She was busy with ''tatting," or Knitting"
Or some such device of the fair.
l had tried to supply conversation,
But the warmth of my manner was feigneo
For our previous tender relation
Now was strained.
We were both in an awkward position,
We'd neither been lovers nor friends
And our state had defied definition,
CIT usually does-till it ends0
But the erstwhile diaphanous fetter
Had grown to be irksome, and so
longed to be fee, and twas better
She should know.
But before could speak she was saying
The words that my trouble assuaged
While bushes her cheeks were displaying,
She said she was Qately) engaged.
! detected slight exultation
In the silence that followedher sigh
SO / said, with no little citation:
$50 am /. "
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-21

A civil suit to recover $4,000, 900 from
Jay Gould and Russell Sage has been begun
by Dutch bankers interested in the Kansas
Pacific Railway Company, and criminal
suits, charging those distinguished finan-
ciers with having stolen securities entrusted
to them, are threatened. The evidence on
which the suits are based was partly
brought out by the Pacific railroads inves-
tigation, so that that costly proceeding may
not prove entirely useless. There is not the
least probability that Gould and Sage will
ever wear convict stripes, but the suits may
bring to light great many interesting and
useful facts
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-21

A convention of the American Shipping
and Industrial League commences in Bos-
ton to-day. 1t is intended to discuss the
question of the best way of reviving Amer
lean ship building, and it is safe to say the
result of their deliberations will be de
mand for bounties Messrs. Frye ar,l Ding
ley will be leading spirits, and they are
too good Republicans to acknowledge that
the best way to encourage ship building is
to relieve them from unnecessary taxation,
and let them havean even chance with the
rest of the world.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-21

Jacob Sharp is yet long way from Sing
Sing. 1t has been determined by his coun-
sci, in the event that the State Supreme
Court refuses him a new trial, to carry the
case to the United States Supreme Court on
the ground that he was convicted on his
own evidence given before a Legislative
committee and used against him in the
criminal trial over his protest. The ques-
tion is not whether Sharp is guilty and
deserves punishment, but whether his guilt
was proven in legal way.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-21
Co-operative Labor.

One of the important subjects co II
sidered by the General Assembly of the
Knights of Labor at Minneapolis is
the best means of encouraging cooperative
enterprises by workingmen 1t isthe desire
of the order that such enterprises shall be
both of the productive and distributive
kind. Though much discussed, few at
tempts have been made in this country
to put the principle of cooperation among
workers to practical test, and those at
tempts have been mostly of the distribu-
tive kind In England, however, the mat
ter is not an untried one. Numerous manu-
featuring establishments in which the
workmen were stockholders have been put
in operation, but the results do not seem to
have been generally satisfactory. Most
of them finally passed into
the hands of individual owners or ceased
operations. The lack of proper business
management was probably the cause of
most of these failures. Workmen at small
salaries, themselves stockholders, win per-
haps generally be found unwilling to pay
the large compensation necessary to secure
the best business talent and experience
They do not appreciate the necessity of
doing so, and valuing their own labor
highly, think it unjust that the apparently
less laborious efforts of another man should
be much more richly rewarded.
But the cooperative societies of England
have been eminently successful in another
line-that of distribution They are said to
now own bank whose transactions amount
to $4,000, 900 year, their l 400 stores do a
business of $3.50, 000,0 900, and the annual
profit to the 100000 members is about $25,-
100000. During the past twenty four years
their profits have been $50 600, 600
1t is probable that in this line cooperation
in America will make its greatest success.
1t has already been tried. During. the
Grange movement several years ago many
farmers stores were established, and in
spite of the collapse of that movement some
of them in the Western States are vet in
existence and prosperous. The success of.
these stores and of the English societies
shows that workmen, by cooperation, can
materially reduce the cost of living This
is, of course, equivalent to an advance of
wages.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-21

Mr.. Louis f. Post is the candidate of the
United Labor party for Attorney General
of New York. He advocates plan which
ought to make him popular with the crimi-
nal classes. 1t is nothing less than to abolish
the law requiring the giving of bail by
criminals, and allowing them TO go on their
word of honor to appear for trial If his
idea should be carried out, this country
would be the paradise of the burglar, thief,
etc. When caught committing one crime,
all that would be necessary to avoid punish
! ment would be to get out of the jurisdiction
Of the court The criminal might lead an
active life and yet die of old age before he
rnade the circuit Of all the States and Terri
tories a
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-21
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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-21

Gov. Foraker is not yet tired of abusing
Cleveland. His last allusion to the Presi-
dent is as a 'copper-head stay-at-home, who
ought not to raise his voice about the rebel
lion" The Governor had better get back
TO issues which interest the people of to-day.
His opponent is doing that very thing, and
may treat him like Hoadly did on one occa-
sion The best patriot may have gone to
the front in 1861, but nowadays he is anxious
for Deace and concord
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-21

With the Stacking up of work on the
Panama canal comes suffering to the thou
sands of laborers gathered ON the isthmus
from almost every country. 1t is feared
this will lead to violence and rioting, as the
local government is weak The great
French enterprise may yet prove an unmiti-
gated curse instead of a blessing. 1t seems
.es lined to fail
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-21

The Hazen railroad bill, which has been
the occasion of so much bribery, or at
tempted bribery, in the New Hampshire
Legislature, though passed by both Houses,
has been vetoed by the Governor Where
80 much suspicion existed that the passage
of the measure was obtained by corrupt
methods, no other course was open to an
trinsic merits
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-21
Something the Public Cannot Scare
AWAY.

From the Neac York Graphic (Dentl
The London police seem anxious to solve by
arrest the question Of disposing of the paupers
who dwell in Trafalgar square. But this is only
a makeshift. Poverty is not crime, and so long
as the people cry for bread or work the Tory
government is confronted with phantom
which the police cannot scare away
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-21

John Swinton has accepted the nomina-
tion for the State Senate of the Progressive
Labor party in the strongest labor district
in New York city. He is said to stand
chance of election. So it was not a disin-
clination to hold office which caused him to
refuse to run for Secretary of State; he
saw there was no chance of success.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-21

Pennsylvania court has just sent the
former President OF national bank and his
son to the penitentiary for five years, for en-
bezzling funds of the institution. That is the
way the courts do over the line in New
Jersey, and it is practice which might be
pursued with great benefit to the commu-
nifty in other parts Of the country
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-21

Grovesteen & Pell, who were building one
Of the new railroads in Northwest Georgia
at the time they failed on the New York
Stock Exchange, are accused of some very
questionable transactions They made the
broadening of the gauge of the road the
pretext for issuing bonds to the extent of
$4,000 per mile, and the bonds were sold,
though the work was never done. Plenty
of things just as open to objection as this
occur on Wall street, however, and the men
responsible for them suffer no punishment
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-21

The bride in one of the fashionable mar
riageS in New York this week settled $780,
900 upon her husband This is very I'M
usual occurrence in this country, but is ex-
planned by the fact that the man had title.
He was an Italian Count. She paid very
large price for him.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-21

Ben Butler will speak for the Anarchists
before the United States Supreme Court.
There is a chance to make money and add
to his notoriety, inducements of equal po-
tency to him.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-21

Just as the strike in the Lehigh coal re-
gion seems about to break down, because of
the failure of the Knights Of Labor General
Assembly to come to their relief with gen
eral assessment, the shoemakers of Philadel-
phia, 10 the number of 5000, have walked out
of the shops. 1t is thought the contest will
be long and bitter one. Pennsylvania, the
centre of protected industries, seems also
the centre of disconnected labor.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-21

The New York Graphic, which has here
tofore been Democratic, has been bought
by Thos. c. Plat and other Republican pol
ticians, and will hereafter be run in their
interests. The power in politics of the pic
torial press is every year more marked, and
as almost every paper of that class is now
unfriendly to the Republicans, they proba-
bly, felt the necessity for, strengthening
themselves in that respect.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-21

A New York court has decided that Sun
day concerts are not illegal, though ope-
ratio performances are. A good many peo-
pie will be puzzled in trying to decide why
one is so much better than the other
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-21

The Sugar Trust is getting actively to
work Eight of the refineries have been
closed down Consumers of sugar will pay
interest on the capital invested in them and
much more in the extra price they will
hereafter pay, on account of the artificial
scarcity
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-21

-Four couples are living in Killingworth,
Conn, who were married in 1887, and three
other couples are living in other places who
were married in Kfllingworth in the same
year Twelve of the fourteen individuals
are natives of that town. The ceremony in
each instance was performed by the Rev.
II. G. Swift
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-21

1t has just leaked out that Alexander
Mitchell, late President of the st. Paul road,
lost 81, 100000 on a wheat deal shortly be-
fore he died. He did not live long enough
to profit by his experience. John Mackay
has paid $4,000,O0O for little schooling in
the same direction.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-21

The Irish World has deserted George and
McGlynn The church shows its strength.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-21

Mr.. Bancroft has been riding great deal
at Newport this season, and in spite of his
SO years sits firmly and securely in the
saddle. He wears a soft cap of black silk,
shaped like yachting cap, and his white
hair CLEANS like silver beneathit The ven
cradle historian still accomplishes certain
amount of literary work every day
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-21
a. r. ALTNIAYER d co.

THE unanimous verdict of the ladies', and all
IL who called Thursday and Friday was that
such an array of lovely goods was never before
seen in Savannah. In every department were
they charmed by the beauty, taste and elegance
displayed These new and choice things were
last week on exhibition but are THIS WEEK
ON SALE,
and we warmly invite you to call and take ad-
vantage OF the opportunity. 1t is unnecessary
to assure you that we will maintain our rep
utatiQn for
CLOSE PRICES
that is already established, but'we will quote
few SPECIAL THINGS in the different depart
ments that are GREAT DRIVES
DRESS GOODS.
Commencing MONDAY MORNING we will
offer:
80 pieces Colored Cashmere, in all the new
shades, at sc. per yard
80 pieces Fancy Checks, Plaids and Stripes, in
double width, at 1216c per yard.
so pieces Double width All wool filling Cash
mere in all the new shades at 19c. per yard;
cannot be matched anywhere for less than 25c.
or BIC
10 pieces 40-inch wide Cancels Hairs at 471sc.
per yard, equal to any 65c. goods in the city.
FL a NNE ELS.
Will offer an ALL WOOL RED FLANNEL at
15c. per yard, and soft white wool Flannel at
1219c. per yard. and full case CANTON FLAN-
NELS at 614c per yard; worth 10c. anywhere
~ BLANKE TS.
Being out of our regular 99c. Blankets we will
sell for the week, or as long as they last, OUR
81 % 10-4 BLANKETS at 99c.
While here look at our lovely large size
LAMBS WOOL BLANKETS at S..
DOMESTICS.
Several cases new styles DRESS GINGHAMS
Just received which we will sell at l0c and
l216c.; never before sold less than 15c. ASK to
see them.
And notwithstanding advance in Fruit of
Loom we will sell two cases this week at &C.
per yard.
GLOVES.
FOR THE WEEK: A line of Dressed and
Undressed Kids, plain or embroidered backs,
4-button, at soc.
To those who have not yet called we will say
DO NOT FAIL TO SEE
OUR MILLINERY.
1t is the completest and most beautiful line
ever displayed southof New York
See alsp cur lovely CL0AKS. This line can
not be surpassed anywhere We would call
your especial attention to our SILK PLUSH,
SATIN LINED wrap at SIP So 1t is the pref
test thing ever seen for the price.
Look also at our SILKS This is a special
feature of our business and we believe our line
is unapproachable
Every department in the house you will find
as complete as those mentioned. All are filled
with the Newest Novelties. We extend warm
invitation to you all to call whether you wish to
purchase or not. Our statesmen and salesladies
are taught to SHOW GOODS with pleasure.
We are respectfully yours,
n IT n1EHl VTHn n IN
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-21
nae Treaty Most Needed.

From the Philadelphia Times tDen)
What this country needs worse than a COM
mercial treaty with Canada is boodlers ex-
change treaty.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-21
CURRENT COMMENT.

Small Enough 20 DO MaHHSeT'
From the PhflGdelDhid Press (RepD
Master Workman Powdery is fast making the
Knights of Labor small enough to control